Close To The Edge v. Supper’s Ready

chamberry wrote: it "may" be fixed but if the masses prefer CTTE rather than SR then we have to face the facts. im not saying its better although i prefer CTTE only because i heard it more times and apreciate it more.

If it is "fixed" then its not the masses prefering it, but a few individuals!

I like Supper's Ready better. I find it a little more diverse and a little less repetitive than CTTE, although I like both, of course.

I have always liked them both, but if I had to watch one song live for the rest of my life,( having seen both play live) I would have to say Closer To Tthe Edge, I love Yes Live more than Genesis Live, Plus I love to watch Wakeman,  But I love Genesis too this Poll is to hard.

Come on! Supper's Ready by leaps and bounds. So much more to offer
than CttE. Have you Yes fans listened to the lyrics? (which are sung
poorly, like all Yes tunes)

'I get up, I get down. I get up, I get down. I get up, I get down.' ?
'A dew drop can exalt us like the music of the sun' ?

And CttE has no defense that it is far less diverse and more repetitive.
Some guy mentioned quite accurately that after a couple listens all one
remembers is the standard issue - albeit catchy - chorus.

All this said I do love both the songs.

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     Do you want to know my opinnion about which song is better?

     Aaah,shucks  !!    CTTE ofcourse

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It's obviously fixed. The votes have gone up for CTTE by about 10 in the past
5 minutes (with 1 for Genesis.) Look at the people that commented saying
what they voted for. There seems to be a little bit more CTTE's but not by
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 There you´ve said it all. That statistic is crucial . Forget about the result of this poll. If most people really prefered Close over Supper´s, the only thing left to think is that "Close" is for the masses and is more likable because it has those poppy and catchy-bubble gum choruses so you remember them even while you are washing your car...man ¡¡, you can sing "I get up I get down" to your 1 year old baby and probably she or he will dance along with the chorus. Try doing the same with "Apocalypse" and the baby will start crying.

  Ok. Just a final thing, so this is not just an ironic text:

  It seems like saying "Close by far", "Close is the best prog song ever" gives much more credit to the argument than a fully explained reason about why "Close" would be better. When such comments are said over the years, 33 year to be precise, what you get is a dogma. Something you can´t argue about, it´s converted into a fact, just like a cience. And that is ridiculous.

 I´ll make a comparison between these two songs in terms of what I think, are the most important elements in music:

 Diversity:       Supper´s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> Close

 Imagination:  Supper´s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>> Close

 Lyrics:           Supper´s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Close       (I get up I get down,I get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get downI get up I get down)

 Creativity (different and original textures, moods, shades, sounds ): 

                                       Supper´s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Close

 Voice and interpretation: Supper´s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Close

 Instrumentation: Supper´s <<<<< Close

 The number of "plus (>>>>)" marks are irrelevant. The differences are overwhelming.

Close sure has better instrumentation. However, I dare to say the complexity of their playing is more individual than the result of a team work. Every instrument is played impressively, but the interaction and the changing from theme to theme is more complex and more a team work in Supper´s.

 

 

CTTE. In fact, I don't really like Supper's ready at all.... It really bores me.

CLOSE TO THE EDGE!!!!!!!

Supper's Ready isn't even close!

 'Close To The Edge' it has to be. I just could not get into 'Supper's Ready' or, for that matter, most of the 'Foxtrot' album. The keyboard sounds in CTTE are just godly!

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Chipiron wrote: CTTE. In fact, I don't really like Supper's ready at all.... It really bores me.

I hear you, although I have in fact learned to sit through SR and even enjoy, say, 50% of it  

Lol, Eduardo sure is likely to find it baffling that somebody could actually get bored while listening to SR as it is supposed to have tons more creativity and diversity... All I can say is, what some people hear as diversity and creativity, I hear as a hotchpotch of ideas not executed nearly as well as on CTTE. Supper's Ready is just too rough on the edges and sounds too much like a musical tune to me. It might have gone down well on Broadway, lol...!

Sorry, I just can't take this prog suite as seriously as some (well, many!) of you do but still, it is fun to sing along to Gabriel on Willow Farm, can't deny that.

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